Description: White marble statue base shaft without moulding (w: 0.63-0.61 × h: 1.24 × d: 0.65)

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: Standard second-third-century forms, 0.025

Date: Second to third centuries CE (terminology, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): copied by William Sherard on the southern stretch of the city walls. Seen by Kubitschek and Reichel reused in an oil-press at Karaçasu, with the last two lines and the right edge lost.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 at one end of the old bridge in the town of Karaçasu; the lower part of the stone had been cut and shaped to form a Turkish tombstone. At some time after 1976 it was removed, during rebuilding of the bridge; most recently in the Museum .

Translation

[?The Council and the People] and the Gerousia honoured Marcus Valerius Epaphrodeitos, distinguished by birth and by education, singer to the kithara, sacred victor, multiple victor, extraordinary, son of Marcus Valerius Narkissos, a citizen and a councillor by descent, who has also benefited his fatherland in many ways.

(?It was agreed that) the statue be set up by Valerius Narkissos, the father.

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